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1. Henry VIII's reign2. Dissension among mendicant orders3. Persecution of Lollards4. Richard Hun5. Lollard martyrs6. Persecution in diocese of Lincoln7. Colet, Chaucer and Gower8. Prophecies preceeding Luther9. Martin Luther10. Adrian VI11. Final years of Luther12. Swiss Reformation13. German martyrs14. French martyrs15. Spanish martyrs16. Italian martyrs17. Merindol and Cabriers18. Angrogne
K. Henry. 8. A Table of Martyrs which suffered in Germanie.
| Persecutors. | Martyrs. | The Causes. |
Baltha- sar, Offi- ciall. | Henry Flēming At Dornic 1525. | This Henry a Frier some tyme of Flaunders, forsoke his habite and maried a wife. Who beyng offered life of Balthasar, if hee would confesse his wife to be an harlot, denyed so to do, and so was burnt at Dornic. |
MarginaliaA good priest martyred in hys owne house. Ex Ioan. Gastio.A Popish priest and a wicked murde- rer. | A good priest dwel lyng not farre from Basill. 1539. | There was a certaine wicked priest, a notorious adulterer, a dycer, & a vile dronkerd geuē to all wickednes and vngratious- nes, without all feare, regardyng nothyng what mischiefe he dyd: moreouer a mā fitte and ready to serue the affectiō of the Papistes at all turnes. It chaunced that this priest was receaued & lod- ged in the house of an other priest dwellyng not farre from Basill, whiche was a good man and a syncere fauourer of the Gospell. This dronken priest sittyng |
at supper, was so dronke that he could not tell what he did, or els feined him self so dronke of purpose, the better to accōplish his entēded mis- chief. So it folowed that this wretch, after his first slepe, rose out of his bed and brake all the glasse windowes in his chamber, threw downe the Stooue, and rent all his hostes bookes that he founde. The host awayking with the noyse therof, came to hym, asking how he did: whe- ther there were any theues or enemies that he was in feare of, desiring him to shew what hee ayled. But as soone as the good hoste had ope- ned his chamber dore, the wicked cutthroate, ranne at him with his sword & slew him. The hoste after the wound receaued, fell down and died. Vpon this, a clamour was made through all the streete, and the neighbours came in, the murderer was taken and bound: and yet all the frends and kinsfolkes that the good priest had, could not make that miserable caitiffe that was the murderer, to be executed: the su- periour power did so take his part, saying that hee should bee sent to his Bishop. The townes men did greuously crye out and complayn, at the boulsteryng out of so manifest vilanie. So did also the noble man that was the Lord of the Page, saying that so many good men and maried priestes were drowned and beheaded for such small trifles, without any regard had to the Bishop: but a murderer might escape vnpunished. It was aunswered to thē agayne, that what the superiour powers would do, they had nothing to do withall. The time was other- wise now, thē it was in the cōmotion of the ru- sticall people. The superiour power had authori tie to gouerne as they woulde, said they: it was their partes onely to obey: And so was hee sent bound to the Bishop, and shortly after dismis- sed, hauing also a greater benefice geuē him for his worthy acte: for so he auaunted him selfe, that he had slayne a Lutherā priest. Ex tom. 2. Conuiualium Sermonum Ioā. Gastij. & ex Pantal. |
Charles the Em- perours Procura- tour. | XXviij. Christen men and wemen of Louane. Paule a Priest. | Whē certaine of the Citie of Lo- uane were suspected of Luthera- nisme, the Emperours Procura- tour came from Brusels thether to make Jnquisitiō. After which Jnquisition made, certeine bādes of armed men came and beset |
| Persecutors. | Martyrs. | The Causes. |
MarginaliaPaulus a priest cōdemned to perpetuall prison. ij. Martyrs burnt at Louane. An aged mā, Martyr. Antonia Martyr buryed quicke. An aged woman Martyrs buryed quicke.Doctour Anchusa nus, In- quisitour. Latomus At Louane An. 1543. | Two aged wemen. Antonia. Two men. At Louane 1543. | their houses in the night, where many were taken in their beds, pluckt from their wiues, and chil dren, and diuided into diuers pri sons. Through the terrour wher- of, many Citizens reuolted from the doctrine of the Gospell, and returned agayn to Jdolatrie. But 28. there were whiche remained constant in that persecutiō. Vn- to whō the Doctours of Louane, Anchusanus especially, the Jn- quisitor & Latomus somtimes, with other, came and disputed, thinking no lesse but either to cō- found them or to conuert them. But so strongly the spirite of the lord wrought with his Saintes, that the other went rather con- founded away them selues. |
When no disputatiō could serue, that which lacked in cūning, they supplied with torments, by enforcyng and afflictyng them seuerally, eue ry one by him selfe. Among the rest, there was one Paulus a priest, vpō the age of 60. yeares, whō the Rectors of the Vniuersitie, with their Collegues, accompanied with a great number of billes & gleues, brought out of prison to the Austen friers, where after many foule words of the Rector, he was degraded. But at length for feare of death he began to staggar in some pointes of his confeßion, and so was had out of Louane, & cōdēned to perpetuall prisō, which was a darke and stinking dongeon, where hee was suffered neither to read nor write, or any man to come at him, commaunded onely to be fed with bread and water. After that, other ij. there were, which because they had reuoked before, were put to the fire and burnt, con- stantly taking their Martyrdome. Then was there an old man, and ij. aged wemen brought forth: of whom the one was called Antonia, borne of an auncient stocke in that Citie. These also were condēned, the man to beheaded, the ij. womē to be buried quicke, whiche death they receaued likewise verye cherefully. Certeine of the other prisoners, whiche were not condemned to death, were de priued of their goodes, commaūded in a white sheete to come to the Church, and there kne- lyng with a Taper in their hand, to aske for- geuenes: and they which refused so to do, and to abiure the doctrine of Luther, were put to the fire. Ex Francis. Encenate. |
MarginaliaM. Perseuall, Martyr.The name of the Per secutor ap peareth not in the story. | M. Perse- uall. | Not long after this, was one M. Perseuall in the same V- niuersitie of Louane, singularly well learned. Who for reprehen- dyng certaine Popishe superstiti ons, and somethyng speaking in cōmendation of the Gospell, was throwen into prison. Then being accused of Lutheranisme, be- cause he stoode to the same, and would not cōdescende to the Po- pes erroneous factiō, hee was ad- iudged to perpetuall prison, there to be fed onely with bread and water: whiche punishment he tooke paciently for Christes sake. Neuertheles certaine Citizens taking cōpaßion of him sent him wyne and beare. But his kepers |
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